Tag: poem
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Healing
Folks talk quite a bit about triggers and trigger responses. This is what I envision when I hear those words. Trauma. Trauma response. Triggers. I see needles lost in haystacks. Stick pins dropped into the carpet, with me on my knees rubbing my hands along the carpet pile trying to find it before I step […]
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My Words
I missed April 30th—sometimes I hit a mental swirl of death, not unlike that horrible grinding of an old laptop that’s on its last leg. It’s these hormones. Meanwhile, I wrote this one quite a while ago, it was inspired by this simple phrase written by someone else altogether, seen below (click the link in […]
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He Keeps On Doing Great Things for Me
Triolet– A/B/a/A/a/B/A/B rhyming pattern. Poets.org, https://poets.org/glossary/triolet So I took the #Triolet Challenge as set forth by the blog “We Drink Because We’re Poets” (now defunct, I believe) on August 5, 2013. It is an interesting structure that lends itself to iambic tetrameter–at least for me. It felt natural; though I have always told myself that […]
Kisha Creates 